shelters are bursting at the seams as rents skyrocket, evictions accelerate
Seeking to frame the issue as one his administration could not have anticipated, Adams has blamed the Republican governors of Texas and Arizona for sending buses of South and Central American asylum-seekers to New York, though he hasn’t been able to quantify their impact beyond conclusory statements. The, Adams is now jousting with Abbott on the national stage as he beseeches the Biden administration for federal aid.
“We have no evidence that what we’re seeing right now is purely a result of the asylum seekers,” he said. “What we’re seeing is a result of the city’s failure to plan.”Adams took office at a pivotal time. He was the first New York City mayor in decades to inherit a smaller shelter population than his predecessor — largely thanks to a Covid-related state ban on evictions that reduced the flow of new clients into the shelter system.
Last month, Adams claimed Arizona, Texas and the federal government were sending migrants, at the time saying some 2,800 had come since May — an estimate that has since increased to nearly 5,000. Both governors denied doing so, Abbott saying he had only sent migrants to Washington. That changed last Friday when he announced the new effort to bus migrants to the five boroughs.
City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, who leads the city’s 51-member legislative body , has criticized“It is clear that the City’s shelter system has been under increased stress due to a range of factors, including the economic impact of the pandemic and the end of the eviction moratorium,” she said in a statement Tuesday. “While there may be a rise in asylum seekers in New York City, this does not mean they are to blame for issues that have historically plagued our shelter system.
Asked about evictions, he said only 1 percent of people entering the system are seeking shelter as the result of an eviction proceeding. Asked what time period that’s covering, the department said it was between January and June of this year This figure doesn’t include people displaced or priced out of their housing without a full eviction case. The agency did not respond to inquiries whether it tracks those factors or what percentage of new arrivals in shelter were asylum seekers.
ny He wanted open borders! He supports illegal voting! Now its more than just words! Not in a million years did he expect this. I am a NY'er. I hope these illegals ruin and bankrupt NYC. Adams and his pals can keep it. I might move to texas. Politicians have brains there.
Blamed governors of Texas & Arizona for sending buses of asylum seekers to NYC? Is that a problem? Is ericadamsfornyc against allowing asylum seekers into US?
New York has allowed these people to come there for years. No kidding, it has the largest population of folks without paper work. So, Arizona and Texas dumping them on NYC is not something they face before when those people immigrant there.
Why isn’t Adams complaining about the federal airlift of illegals to Westchester & Islip!?
Why complain when he and his party are supporting this kind of crisis, they support sanctuary cities
He’s be correct.
The only way this should be allowed is if NY can bus an equal number of MAGAs to TX and AZ.
Has anyone listened to the comments from NYC's Mayor on Sanctuary Cities and how he wants 'diversity' in the City? Now he gets this - and as a bonus these illegal aliens can send in their picture as they apply for all of those 'diversity hires' in NYC.
Adams is totally unprepared to be Mayor of NYC he enjoys, thrives on the social and night life but not the governing of the City.
happened overnight huh?
Hilarious
I’d take a hard working immigrant over a fascist racist any day
This is what happens when you declare yourself a sanctuary city
DiVerSiTy Is oUr StrEngTh, this seems like a racist thing to say from Mr. Adams
Abott is awesome. Send them more also send them to Boston and Burlington, VT is whitest state.
No GA fan but why not direct the ire at your open boarder potus. No fun when you're be laughed at instead of laughing with EA huh?
Adams voted for Biden
Since when did democrats become racist against immigrants? Oh right that party has been racist since it's founding who am I kidding
Maybe he should have ended our sanctuary city status then. He’s DeBlasio’s 3rd term🤡
😂
This guy is a creep.
: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” I guess these words don’t matter to Mayor Adams!!
NYC is a sanctuary city so good luck!
If it’s unimaginable that the governor of Texas has shipped migrants to NYC ? Wtf do you call Biden for letting them cross into Texas and Arizona by the thousands? Just wondering?
Not to mention Adam's saying NYC isn't a safe place to drop them off.
New York should open probation department offices in those states and release convicts there.
Obviously a racist. He is a sanctuary city after all. I’m sure it wasn’t simply virtue signaling
Well he is a sanctuary city, So I am guessing that he is thanking them
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